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She Oshawn Cimes - Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1964--PAGE 6 | Impaired Driver Justly Earns 'Criminal Tag A: Kitchener magistrate is re- ported as saying that effective penalties for impaired driving could be imposed under provincial laws instead of the Criminal Code. A person convicted under the Criminal Code acquires a criminal record. The news report stated: "The magis- trate said he does not believe that the public regards this situation in the same way that it does convic- tions for theft or other criminal offences." He said he was not in any way suggesting a softening of the atti- tude towards impaired driving. But he noted that it is legal for a man to take one or two drinks and driver -- "that is the general way of our life these days" -- And that is the "general way of our life" that results in the tragic, ever-increasing loss of life on our streets and highways. The magistrate's reported com- ments -- and we sincerely hope he was misquoted -- reflect the primi- tive viewpoint, still far too firmly embedded in our laws, that prop- Concern Of The representative of a large manufacturing concern argued be- fore a select committee of the On- tario Legislature the other day that business should properly be taxed for services provided to all prop- erty owners, such as fire protec- tion, sewers and roads, but services provided to individuals -- recre- ation, welfare facilities -- should be openly charged to individuals. When the "individual" services are charged to all properly owners, he argued, a company has no choice but to pass on its share of the tax costs in the prices of its goods. There is no doubt that taxation has a strong influence on prices. Taxes on some commodities are so heavy that they are the single big- gest cost factor. A few years back a telephone company applied for a rate increase; the company estab- lished at a public hearing that it needed additional earnings of one million dollars a year in order to provide for expanded services. But to obtain that additional million dollars the company had to ask a erty is more sacred than human life: The person who steals, no matter for what reason, is a thief, a desperate criminal, but -- accor- ding to the magistrate's interpreta- tion of public opinion -- a man who deliberately impairs his judg- ment and then takes charge of as lethal a machine as an automobile is guilty only of a slight error in judgment and should be not con- sidered a criminal at all. Perhaps this is the public atti- tude. Certainly it is the attitude of one segment of the public -- that segment which consistently defies traffic regulations and makes the roads a hazard for everyone. But we doubt if it is the attitude of the great majority. Whether it is or not, however, we are con- vinced that the magistrate is wrong, terribly. and dangerously wrong. The impaired drivers as among the most dangerous criminals in the country, because they deliberately put themselves in the position to kill -- and that, in our book, is murder. Individuals rate increase that would bring in two million dollars because the federal corporation tax would take half of the higher earnings. So we'll not quibble about the effects of taxation on costs -- taxa- tion by any level of government. But we're puzled by those services "provided to individuals" A sound educational system, surely, is as im- portant to a business as to the in- dividual; without the individuals; business does not exist. Most large companies now are extremely in- terested in education, sometimes for purely selfish reasons: They cannot get first-rate executives to settle in communities which lack a good school system, for example. Then one would think that good recreation facilities would tend to' make happier employees. But. most dis- tressing is the reference to welfare, Who are the individuals whose ex- clusive responsibility it is to look after the welfare of less fortunate citizens? The answer must surely be. all the individuals -- including the business men -- capable of pro- viding the help. Estate Taxes Burden If the federal government is real- ly concerned about small business and foreign ownership of Canadian business, it will do something about the present punitive system of death duties. Estate taxes have been mentioned in several of the briefs presented to the Royal Commission on Taxation. There may be some argument over the claim put forward by some wit- nesses before the commission that the basic tax exemption on all esta- tes should be raised from $60,000 to $100,000, and that the peak rate should be lowered from 54 per cent to 30 per cent. It should be re- membered, of course, that the dollar today has less than half the buying power it had when the estate tax rates were put into effect. There are other aspects, however, about which there can be little She Oshawa Times "7. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor Oshowa Times Gazette ond lished daily The Oshawa Times comb' The lesteolisned 1871} "and the, Whitty icle (esta 1863) is wt otc Daity ers Association. The Canadian Press, Audit ot Circulation end the Ontario Provinciol Dailies Association. The Canadion Press is exciusively entitied to the use. of republication of ali news despatched im the poper credited to tt or to The Associated Press -or Reuters, and also the tocol news oublished therein. All rights of special des patches ore. aiso reserved. Offices: Thomson Bulldi: 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; Catheort Street, Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby ing. Bowmanville. Brooklin, Port Perry, Albert Mapie Grove, Hampton, Frenchman's 5 Liverpoot_ Taunton, Tyrone Dunbarton Enniskillen Orono Leskord Brougham Burketon Cicremont, Columbus Greerwood Kinsale Raglon Blackstock Manchester Pontypool end Newcastle not over 45¢ per week. By mail {in 4 tp of Ontorio) outside corriers delivery areos per . Other Countiles 15.00, Provinces and USA. end foreign 24.00, A ince argument. The law should permit installment payments; a widow should be granted some tax exemp- tion on half of her husband's estate; normal household furnishings should be considered the property of the widow; pensions and annuities should not be taxed at their capital- ized value, because this clearly sub- jects a widow to double taxation. Government hunger for revenue is awesome, but it should be con- trolled by some measure of reason. A private member's motion -- by Alfred Hales, a Conservative -- to allow five-year installment pay- ments of death duties, rather than full payment within six months as the law now requires, was squelched by government spokesmen. Mr. Hale's proposal was endorsed by both the Canadian Bar Association and the National Council of Women. It may be that estate taxes could 'be changed only after federal-pro- vincial consultation.. But. such con- sultation is possible, and offers no excuse for lack of action. Other Editors' Views COST OF SMOKING Stratford Beacon-Herald A recent survey of price: scales in various world tourist centres in- cludes a report on comparative costs of cigarettes. A package of 20 can be bought for 20 cents in Tokyo; for 27 cents in Paris; for 28 cents in Brussels; for 33 cents in New York; for 87 cents in Mel- bourne; for 38 cents in Rome. In London, England, the package of 20 retails at 63 cents. REPORT FROM U.K. Year Of Expansion Seen For Scotland By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times EDINBURGH, Scotland--Scot- land 'is looking ahead to the year 1964 as a year which will see that country taking an ever- increasing part in the industrial and economic expansion which is forecast for Britain in the years that lie immediately ahead. Apart from the natural ex- pansion which will come from the investment of private capi- tal in industry, Scotland is to become the focal point for a YOUR HEALTH five-year government program of economic development. This program was announced by the government late in 1963, and it has been received in Scotland with great expectations that it will result in solving the un- employment and economic prob- lems of that country. The plan for government spending announced for Scot- land is the most ambitious ever undertaken there. Intensive pub- lic capital investment, largely in the central area lying between Edinburgh and Glasgow -- one of the original cradles of the European industrial revolution-- wili bring about the provision of Best To Consult - Regular Physician By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: Your ar- ticle on hypertension, or high blood pressure, fits my husband exactly. What kind of a doctor should he consult--Mrs, R.S.M. Why not to his regular doc- tor? I assume he has one. The general practitioner remains the first line of medical defence. Even though the number of epecialists has multiplied vastly it's the man in general pracice who knows when you need a specialist. It is often more @€nportant, in the various ills that we all must contend with, to have as a doctor someone who is thor- oughly familiar with you, and with your physical peculiarities, than to have a specialist who knows his. subject intimately but doesn't know you. This is a rather simple, ob- vious fact that has been rather lost in the shuffle -- especially because. a certain few people make ag confusing lot of braggy noises about going to specialists for everything that ails them. This dividing line between general care and care by spec- ialists isn't a rigid one. In the cities, there is a swifter call- ing of specialists, because they are more readily available. In the smaller towns and the coun- try, of necessity the "family doctor" handles a wider variety of problems himself--like deliv- ering babies and performing minor surgery. The small-town doctor, quite sensibly, will use the better known remedies if, for exam- ple, you have an annoying skin condition, whereas in a big city you may very well go to a dermatologist. But whether in city or coun- try, have a regular physician and depend on him to tell you when you need a specialist. It's only the physician who has known you over a period of years who can readily disting- uish between a case of nerves and some truly organic disturb- ance. Sure, a specialist. can find out, but it will take him some time and some tests. Your own doctor can save you time, money and worry -- and choose the best available spec- jalist if, as must happen to some of us, the really hard problem comes along. Don't think the general physi- cian has "gone out of style." Dear Dr. Molner: My son had rheumatic fever when he was nine years old. He now is 45. works very hard, 12 or 14 hours a day, six days a week. Appar- ently there has been no reac- Bat 'on his heart, Is there a prob- ability of this happening later, say in the next 20 years.--B.G, Not all attacks of rheumatic fever damage the heart, al- though many do. Your son's condition indicates that his heart was and probably still is healthy. There is no reason to fear that he will suffer any harm now from an illness more than 30 years ago. Dear Dr. Molner: I have been taking four grains of thyroid a day for 20 years. Should the do- sage be changed? I am troubled with insomnia and wonder if it is a byproduct of low metabol- There's no reason why thyroid medication cannot be continued indefinitely. It is simply a mat- ter of giving chemically what the body normally should pro- vide automatically. But the need can change over the years. Thus 80 should the dose. The insomnia is not a result of low metabol- ism, but it COULD be a conse- quence of getting more thyroid than necessary. A periodic checkup on the dosage is imper- ative. essential services necessary to industrial expansion. Road building, houses, air- ports, will figure largely in an increased program of public in- vestment amounting to $810 mil- lion which will be expended over a two-year period. Scotsmen are pleaseq to note that this is equivalent to over 11 per cent of the total public investment in the United Kingdom. The government's program will assist in the transition of Scotland from an economy largely based on heavy, tradi- tional] industries, such as iron, steel, shipbuilding, heavy engin- eering and coal, to. a more di- versified industrial structure, emphasizing scientific based and consumer products. FOUR NEW TOWNS The impetus to economic growth will largely stem from investment in 10 special areas. Most spectacular will be developments in the four new towns of East Kilbride, Cumber- nauld, Grenrothes and Living- ston, These attractive centres have a total capacity for new houses and jobs to meet the needs of over 200,000 more peo- ple, the majority drawn from the older districts of Glasgow. Two urban areas which have expanded since the war, Irvine in West Scotland and Grange- mouth on the River Forth are scheduled for further growth. Irvine has brought in many firms from England and over- seas, and Grangemouth is the centre of the new British petro- chemical industry. The rehabilitation of older in- dustrial areas will receive much of the remaining investment. These are North Lanarkshire, Central Fife, the Lothians and the Vale of Leven. AIDS TO_ INDUSTRY Wide financial inducements to incoming industry are provided. There will be heavy expenditure on communications, regarded as a main economic tool. Regional water schemes, power, new housing and urban renewal are included in the plans, And plans for road-building, railways, ports and airports are being co- ordinated on a massive scale in this, the biggest co-ordinated economic plan ever to be ap- Plied in Britain. A large influx of industry from outside Scotland and the diversifying of existing firms is confidently predicted in the next five years which are crucial ones for the development of this ty, saa of expansion for Scot- land. BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1944 Thirty-four first donations were made at the Oshawa Blood Clinic when 129 donors made it the largest of the new year. Arnold Greene gave his 10th donation. W. H. J. Richardson resigned from the Whitby Board of Edu- cation after 30 years service Maj.-Gen. Arthur Potts, CDE, ED, District Officer Command- ing Military District 2, gave the llth Reserve Army Tank Regi- ment high commendation fol- lowing an inspection at the Armories. A large delegation from the the Oshawa Kiwanis Club were among the 200 Kiwanians who gathered at the Charter Night festivities of the Cobourg Ki- wanis Club. : Dr. J. C. Devine, former reeve of Beaverton, was elected War- den of Ontario County Council at their inaugural meeting. A Canad'an tank unit, the crews of which mostly were from Oshawa, won high praise when 60 enemy tanks were de- Stroyed in a 35-day battle in tion from the rheumatic fever Italy A barn fire of unknown ori- gin, caused loss and damage to the property of Dr. Bryce A. ia in the south end of the Oshawa Fair Board officials re-appointed were Norman Down, president, John Dryden, vice-president, and E. W. Web- ber, sécretary-treasurer. ~ The erection of a new library to overcome the crowded con- ditions was suggested at the an- nual meeting, as a post-war project. City Council delegated Mayor Davis, Ald. B. J. Brown and City Treasurer P. A. Blackburn to investigate the possibility of the provincial government in- crease its grants for education before the city's tax rate was fixed for the year. Rev. Hugh G. Crozier, mini- ster of Cedardale United Church for seven years, tendered his resignation. City council decided that the construction of a sewer on Rit- son road south and Ballard street would be a post-war project. OTTAWA RorOns Canadians May Be Ready For Honors By PATRICK NICHULSON OTTAWA -- Two weeks have elapsed since the Queen con- ferred a barony of England upon Canadian-born Roy Her- recognition bd hy gy services." But still re has been no public com- ment upon the most remarkable e sequel. The first acknowledged Cana- dian to be awarded a hereditary British title in nearly half a cen- tury has scored a clean sweep of newspaper headlines and ical conversation--and all with hardly a whisper of any- thing but approbation. This re- action raises the question: Are Canadians more sophisticatedly appreciative of honors and awards for services rendered than was supposed by Macken- zie King--who banned honors of all Canadians except himself? The granting of hereditary titles to Canadians living in Canada lapsed after the Second World War. One of the last was the barony of Shaughnessy, con- QUEEN'S PARK ferred upon the Canadian Pa Railway 1916. Not many years ago, the third holder of that title worked in Ottawa, on the staff of the of minister of finance. the Montreal news- stan; but that title, like the barony of Mount Stephen ear!l- jer granted to another CPR president, George Stephen, has pages extinct through lack of an ; Peaue te i fon Ca. nedian title is the barony of Strathcona and Mount Royal, which is still extant, and was made famous by the regiment named after an earlier Lord Strathcona, The gap of half a century be- tween the peerages conferred upon Shaughnessy and Roy Thomson was bridged by two Canadians each of whom was living in England. In 1917 Max New Committees; Something To BY DON O'HEARN TORONTO--The Department of Travel and Publicity in fu- ture will be known as the De- partment of Tourism and Infor- mation. This was one of the major an- nouncements in this year's speech from the throne. The speech said the name for the department woul? "convey more adequately its in- creased duties and responsibili- ties." This in turn covers pretty ade- quately the character of this year's speech: A long recital of old actions and promises dressed up with a bit of pepper and salt but no sauce, There were a few new steps promised but generally it was a tepid document. NEW NAME One other department gets a new name. The department of energy re- sources will be re-labelled as the department of energy, and resources management. The main point is that all con- servation activities will be moved into this department. Also it would indicate that the government may plan eventu- ally to put stricter controls on the use of water. Consolidating conservation is a good move, Until now this im- portant area of government has been spread through a number of departments. and has suffered accordingly. University affairs will be @ completely new department. University matters have been handled by an advisory com- mittee under Hon. Leslie Frost. This committee is to continue, and it isn't clear yet just what the functions of the new depart- ment will be. It has been suggested it might stimulate greater use of university facilities, perhaps start a state university, possibly co-ordinate some activities such as assembling of libraries, and perhaps launch a junior college program. MANY COMMITTEES There also is to be an em- phasis on select committees. The committees on consumer Army Gives Up Responsibility For Highway -- OTTAWA (CP)--On April 1, 1946, the Canadian Army took over the U.S. Army responsibil- ity for year-round maintenance of the 1,221.4 miles of the Alaska Highway that lie in Canadian territory. This spring the army will turn over this task to the federal works department. For north- erners, the significance may be that the army can't ask for money to pave roads--but the works department can. On March 17-18, 1942, Canada and the U.S. signed an agree- ment for construction of a high- way from Dawson Creek, B.C., to Fairbanks, Alaska, a dis- tance of 1,523.4 miles through some of the most rugged terri- tory in North America. : The highway -- officially, th Northwest Highway System -- was built and used strictly for military purposes during the war. It now has immeasurably more importance as a road te resources and settiement, com- munications link and tourist at- traction. In an average summer, some 30,000 vehicles now pass through Mile 917 (Whitehorse, Y.T.) where the system has its headquarters. Some 5,000 vehi- cles pass through the customs som at the Yukon-Alaska bor- r. MOSTLY UNPAVED In addition to the main high- way, the army maintains seven access roads to the emergency landing fields of the Northwest Staging route, 172 miles in all, and the 117 Canadian miles of the Haines cut-off from Haines Junction, Y.T., to Haines, Alaska. Do eredit and municipal affairs will be reappointed, In addition there will be new committees on the problems of youth, the problems of the eld- erly, and on mining. is is cynical, but one sus- pects that the most tmportant consideration in appointing these committees is to give pri- vate members something to do when the House isn't sitting. Not that they won't have some value. Any inquiry brings to light certain problems and at least airs g public discussion of bad But\no very strong concrete reasons were given for estab- lishing the youth and elderly committees. And there is a def- inite question as to whether a group of members of the House is the best group to study these fields. In fact the committee that might be of most value at this point could be a select commit- tee to investigate the place, value and worthwhile scope of select committees. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan. 21, 1964 The Canadian defence de- partment granted three months' leave to former coal miners in the armed services 21 years ago today --in 1943. They were sent back to the mines to help relieve a coal shortage dur- ing the Second World War. 1907 -- Carrie Nation wrecked a saloon in Wichita, Kan., dramatizing a crus- ade for _ prohibition that swept the United States. 1924 -- Nikolai Lenin Soviet premier, died at the ege of 54. te fo He consulted the vernor eral, the Duke a Devonshire, ie whose military secretary : vised that the provincial lieuten- ant governors should be asked rward recommendations, TITTLE-TATTLE KILLS Those gentlemen had some very garrulous wives; there were leaks, and Borden returned to Ottawa to find hie ' desk piled with letters of pro- test, mostly from women, scan-: dalously denigrating some of reves P eagoncag-ne as- serting tha were adulterers and drunkards, and': Suggesting that their own hus« bands would be more deserving: recipients. A similar experience. befell R. B.. Bennett -when he Was undertaking a similar ex-' ercise; he commented to a friend that he was disgusted to: learn the jealousy and petty-.. mindedness of which such let ter-writers were capable. ' It was that reaction which put ' Borden in the mood to accept the resolution introduced in Par- liament by a Conservative MP that Canadians should not be awarded honors carrying a title, But today awards of French and ieee pon gyn and roa onors are widely accepted deserving Canadians, Are hom ors and awards now on the way back to Canada? The approba- tion greeting Roy. Thomson's. suggests Canada's mood is now ready for this, MEL KRUGER REPRESENTATIVE SUN LIFE Assurance Company of Canada BUSINESS: 725-4563 HOME: 723-7900 BY LACK OF quiring more land, buildings, machinery or equipment finance their expansion pro- grammes through IDB. 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